Sunday, 16 August 2009

PLATFORM - MY LAST MONTH OF TRACK POSTINGS.

GENTLE FRIENDLY - RIP STATIC/CLEAN BREAKER.

The double D’s Gentle Friendly’s Daniel and David are back with an album coming out on Upset The Rhythm on the 19th of October.

Here is a wee taster of the vast sound this duo have been producing on their South London sound farm. Im excited to say that they seem to have found a way of taming the wild beast that is them playing live and trap it for eternity within these recordings. Both tracks sure have real live trampoline bounce to them, see pic for proof.

This song immediately gives me that all encompassing feeling that tends to set in at about six in the morning when the drugs have run out, and after a terrifying walk through the denizens of your no longer familiar neighborhood, you crawl in to your unkept bed, assess your life and will sleep to set in…

Dont Lie is the first track on the new Abe Vigoda EP, Reviver, which is on Bella Union. It’s a glimpse in to the slightly more melodic accessible Abe Vigoda, although they are still in keeping with The Smell that nourished them, remaining wonderfully off kilter and degenerate.

Much like this particularly awe-inspiring kid I went to school with, “Don’t Lie” was his catchphrase – he would hold you by the ears and command you not to lie, before eating multi-coloured biros and running out the classroom to scale up the walls of the corridor, wailing at all the inept teachers: revolution was in the air. He was kind of a hero to me, now I think about it.

Be My Girl – Giving more then just a little nod to T-Rex and the guy we are not aloud to talk about anymore, you know… perfectly rhymes with shitter and bitter! Also Spector era Ramones, the list could go on but of course everything is derivative, in fact I prefer to think everything is hybrid.

That aside, check out your immanent enjoyment of the massive chorus, truly amazing Nirvana bootleg artwork and knowledge that you are listening to young skinny cool kids from Chicago and not 70-year-old kiddie touchers.

Sian Alice Group return with second album ‘Troubled, Shaken, etc.’ due out on the always impeccable Social Registry label.

Sian Ahern’s voice once again soothing the soul whilst sitting on top of a dark and building, trancey, tribal stomp and melody. You know how that Q lazzarus’s ‘Goodbye Horses’ is kind of cool and danceable but still induces total fear due to it’s synonymity with ‘Silence of the Lambs’…? Well ‘Close to The Ground’ is destined to find its place in a psychological horror movie in a scene involving possessed and rabid wild boar running through the dusk toward the orphanage. That’s my prediction anyway.

As far as i am aware Olympia, Washington is not a scuzzy beach hang, the closest thing they have to weed tooting bikini girls with titty tattoos are repressed Governers’ daughters skipping book club to go blow the vocalist of the local Christian rock band.

That said, California dreaming is healthy fodder for epic escapist tracks like this here ‘Big Wave Rider’ by Rainbow Bridge, taking you on the short journey from the back of the van and towards the shore line, skipping the risky hyperdermic needle and condom debris the ocean has spewed inland.